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  1. Jun 03, 2011
    • Koki Sanagi's avatar
      net: tracepoint of net_dev_xmit sees freed skb and causes panic · ec764bf0
      Koki Sanagi authored
      
      
      Because there is a possibility that skb is kfree_skb()ed and zero cleared
      after ndo_start_xmit, we should not see the contents of skb like skb->len and
      skb->dev->name after ndo_start_xmit. But trace_net_dev_xmit does that
      and causes panic by NULL pointer dereference.
      This patch fixes trace_net_dev_xmit not to see the contents of skb directly.
      
      If you want to reproduce this panic,
      
      1. Get tracepoint of net_dev_xmit on
      2. Create 2 guests on KVM
      2. Make 2 guests use virtio_net
      4. Execute netperf from one to another for a long time as a network burden
      5. host will panic(It takes about 30 minutes)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKoki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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